Eickelberg nr. Warnow

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08834EIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Visby type - round bowl)
Church / Chapel Name: Dorfkirche Eickelberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Address: Dorfstraße 23, 18249 Eickelberg, Germany
Site Location: Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 192, in the municipality and 3 km W of Warnow
Font Notes:
Described in Drake (2002: 178, 183) as a baptismal font of the Paradise group (Visby type - round bowl) made of Gotlandic limestone. Identified in Berggren (2002: 150 fn17) as a baptismal font made of Gotlandic limestone [NB: Berggren notes earlier erroneous identifications of its material as granite]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 685647 5962116
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.7745, 11.8173
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 46′ 28.2″ N, 11° 49′ 2.28″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotlandic limestone)
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002
  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 178, 183